Ophthalmoskopieversuche vor Helmholtz*

Remky, H

doi:10.1055/s-2008-1050250

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“…34 Whether he really saw the structures, including blood vessels and papilla, is not evident from his description. 35,36 The fact that Purkinje published his findings in a few paragraphs of a thesis "Commentatio de examine physiologico organi visus et systematis cutanei" that was written in Latin and not sufficiently circulated, which may explain why it did not get the attention it deserved. Interestingly, the book was reviewed by no one less than Johannes Müller (1801 to 1858) at the request of Johannes Schulze, an official attached to the Prussian Ministry of Culture and Education.…”

Section: Ophthalmoscopymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Historical Roots of the Visual Examination

Koehler¹

2002

Semin Neurol

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The history of the visual examination is discussed in five parts. The history of visual acuity is followed from the minimum separable of Persian scientists to the 19th-century charts. Events in the history of the examination of the pupil include the late discovery of the significance of anisocoria in trauma, the description of the pupillary light reflex, the midbrain nucleus responsible for it, and the discovery of the neuroanatomic basis of pupillary abnormalities. Attempts to look into the eyeball date from the 17th century and are followed up to the discovery of the ophthalmoscope (1851). The evolution of the visual field examination is described from the first observations of hemianopia in the Hippocratic Corpus, to the present day visual field examination. Important landmarks in the history of central disorders of visual integration include "mind blindness" and the theories on aphasia that formed the basis for the study of disorders of central integration.

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Section: Ophthalmoscopymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…44 The instrument may have been better than the first model of Helmholtz. 36 Babbage's method was applied again by Epkens (an instrument constructor working for Donders in Utrecht, 1851), Helmholtz (1852), and Christian G.T. Ruete (1810 to 1867).…”

Section: Ophthalmoscopymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Historical Roots of the Visual Examination

Koehler¹

2002

Semin Neurol

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“…He saw the optic nerve of a cat, but to do so he had to submerge the cat's head under water to neutralize the effect of the cornea. 7 Adolf Kussmaul, who is remem-bered today for his work on respiration, did animal experiments as a medical student at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1844 in an attempt to visualize the retina, 8 but he did not know how to illuminate the fundus. William Cumming, working in England in 1846, and Ernst Brü cke in Vienna, Austria, in 1847, were even closer.…”

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